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Video: Dangerous Games

This week in the magazine, Ben McGrath writes about football’s concussion crisis. Here McGrath analyzes recent examples of dangerous helmet-to-helmet collisions in N.F.L. games, the faster style of play that leads to more dramatic head and neck injuries, and the potential long-term damage to players’ brains.

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